57474 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 23, 2023 / Notices 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18133 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 

CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 

Colorado College (previously the Fine 

Arts Center Taylor Museum and the 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is no 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and any Indian Tribe. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from an unknown 

geographic location. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

September 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Michael Christiano, 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 

Colorado College, 30 West Dale Street, 

Colorado Springs, CO 80903, telephone 

(719) 477–4311, email mchristiano@

coloradocollege.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of Colorado Springs 

Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. 

The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. Additional information on 

the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by Colorado Springs Fine 

Arts Center at Colorado College. 

Description 

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown geographic location. 

Sometime prior to January 1929, the 

human remains were acquired by Dr. 

Richard Warren Corwin (1852–1929). 

Corwin was a world traveler who made 

numerous trips to various locales across 

Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. 

Corwin’s nephew, Dr. William Senger, 

inherited Corwin’s collections and 

donated them to Colorado College in 

1940 and 1943. In 1987, Colorado 

College closed the Palmer Hall Museum, 

and the collection was loaned to several 

museums, including the Fine Arts 

Center Taylor Museum. Subsequently, 

the human remains became part of the 

collection of the Fine Arts Center Taylor 

Museum and in 2016, the Fine Arts 

Center Taylor Museum merged with 

Colorado College. The human remains 

(Colorado College catalog number 11 

and 249)—two teeth—belong to a child. 

Additional teeth belonging to this 

individual (Colorado College catalog 

number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 235, 236, 

240, 242, 243, and 252) are currently 

missing from the museum’s collections, 

but upon being located, they will be 

transferred together with the human 

remains listed in this notice. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown geographic location. On April 

5, 2022, an envelope marked ‘‘July 2019 

Tooth and Bone Fragments’’ was 

discovered. The human remains (FIC 

2022.77)—a tooth—belong to an adult. 

The two associated funerary objects are 

the femur fragment of a small adult 

mammal (176; FIC 2022.75) and a 

mammalian skeletal fragment (FIC 

2022.76). 

Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.16, the 

Secretary of the Interior may make a 

recommendation for a transfer of control 

of the culturally unidentifiable human 

remains and associated funerary objects. 

In June of 2023, the Colorado Springs 

Fine Arts Center at Colorado College 

requested that the Review Committee 

consider a proposal to transfer control of 

the human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice to the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the Southern 

Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 

Reservation, Colorado. The Review 

Committee, acting pursuant to its 

responsibility under 25 U.S.C. 

3006(c)(5), considered the request at its 

June 2023 meeting, and it recommended 

to the Secretary that the proposed 

transfer of control proceed. A July 2023 

letter on behalf of the Secretary of 

Interior from the Designated Federal 

Official transmitted the Secretary’s 

independent review and concurrence 

with the Review Committee that: 

• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts 

Center at Colorado College consulted 

with every appropriate Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization, 

• None of the consulted and notified 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations objected to the proposed 

transfer of control, and 

• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts 

Center at Colorado College may proceed 

with the agreed upon transfer of control 

of the culturally unidentifiable human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the 

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. 

Transfer of control is contingent on 

the publication of a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register. 

This notice fulfills that requirement. 

Determinations 

Officials of the Colorado Springs Fine 

Arts Center at Colorado College have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on biological 

evidence and museum history. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of two 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the two objects described in this notice 

are reasonably believed to have been 

placed with or near individual human 

remains at the time of death or later as 

part of the death rite or ceremony. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

present-day Indian Tribe. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.10(g)(2) and 

10.16, the disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

may be to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and 

the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. 

Request for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or non-Federally recognized 

Indian groups identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 


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Native Hawaiian organization, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after September 22, 2023. If 

competing requests for disposition are 

received, Colorado Springs Fine Arts 

Center at Colorado College must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. Colorado Springs 

Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 

3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 

CFR 10.9 and 10.11. 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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Notice of Inventory Completion 

Amendment: University of California, 

Riverside, Riverside, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; amendment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Riverside has 

amended a Notice of Inventory 

Completion published in the Federal 

Register on May 2, 2003. This notice 

amends the number of associated 

funerary objects and the cultural 

affiliation in a collection removed from 

Riverside County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

September 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University 

of California, Riverside, 900 University 

Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900, 

telephone (951) 827–6349, email 

megan.murphy@ucr.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the University of 

California, Riverside. The National Park 

Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

amendments and determinations in this 

notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

inventory or related records held by the 

University of California, Riverside. 

Amendment 

This notice amends the 

determinations published in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register (68 FR 23495, May 2, 2003). 

Repatriation of the items in the original 

Notice of Inventory Completion has not 

occurred. This amendment is being 

made to reflect a change in cultural 

affiliation and the identification of 

newly discovered associated funerary 

objects for the archeological collection 

CA–RIV–102 (accession 58). 

The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, 

California have been newly identified as 

being culturally affiliated with CA–RIV– 

102. Also, objects have been newly 

identified as associated funerary objects 

(previously, no associated funerary 

objects were identified). The 6,600 

associated funerary objects are 4,003 

animal bones, one ceramic sherd, two 

pieces of clay, 16 pieces of charcoal, one 

seed pod bead, five seeds, one glass 

object, 14 fire-affected rocks, 1,201 

pieces of lithic materials, 43 flaked 

stone tools, 87 ground stone tools, 44 

crystals, one piece of ochre, six battered 

stones, two stone beads, 1,151 

unmodified lithic pieces, five shell 

beads, 12 unmodified shells, and five 

metates. 

Determinations (as Amended) 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of 

California, Riverside has determined 

that: 

• The human remains represent the 

physical remains of one individual of 

Native American ancestry. 

• The 6,600 objects described in this 

amended notice are reasonably believed 

to have been placed with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Agua Caliente Band 

of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente 

Indian Reservation, California; 

Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, 

California; Cabazon Band of Cahuilla 

Indians (Previously listed as Cabazon 

Band of Mission Indians, California); 

Cahuilla Band of Indians; Los Coyotes 

Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians, 

California; Morongo Band of Mission 

Indians, California; Ramona Band of 

Cahuilla, California; Santa Rosa Band of 

Cahuilla Indians, California; Soboba 

Band of Luiseno Indians, California; and 

the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla 

Indians, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after September 22, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of California, Riverside 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

California, Riverside is responsible for 

sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 10.13, 

and 10.14. 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18139 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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